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Caroline Pantofaru
PhD Student

Email address: caroline.pantofaru@cs.cmu.edu

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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• Vision and Mobile Robotics Lab - Our group studies fundamental problems of Computer Vision and ground mobile robotics.

• MARS2020 - This project seeks to develop softwares needed to program autonomous mobile robots in partially known, changing, and unpredictable environments.

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Studies in Using Image Segmentation to Improve Object Recognition
  C. Pantofaru
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-08-23, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [48934 KB] copyrighted

• A framework for learning to recognize and segment object classes using weakly supervised training data
  C. Pantofaru and M. Hebert
  British Machine Vision Conference, September, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1969 KB] copyrighted

• Discriminative Cluster Refinement: Improving Object Category Recognition Given Limited Training Data
  L. Yang, R. Jin, C. Pantofaru, and R. Sukthankar
  Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [191 KB] copyrighted

• Toward Objective Evaluation of Image Segmentation Algorithms
  R. Unnikrishnan, C. Pantofaru, and M. Hebert
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 29, No. 6, June, 2007, pp. 929-944. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2770 KB] copyrighted

• Combining Regions and Patches for Object Class Localization
  C. Pantofaru, G. Dorkó, C. Schmid, and M. Hebert
  The Beyond Patches Workshop in conjunction with the IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2006, pp. 23 - 30. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1584 KB] copyrighted

• A Comparison of Image Segmentation Algorithms
  C. Pantofaru and M. Hebert
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-05-40, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2005. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1457 KB] copyrighted

• A Measure for Objective Evaluation of Image Segmentation Algorithms
  R. Unnikrishnan, C. Pantofaru, and M. Hebert
  Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '05), Workshop on Empirical Evaluation Methods in Computer Vision, Vol. 3, June, 2005, pp. 34 - 41. [Abstract]
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• Toward Generating Labeled Maps from Color and Range Data for Robot Navigation
  C. Pantofaru, R. Unnikrishnan, and M. Hebert
  Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vol. 2, October, 2003, pp. 1314 - 1321. [Abstract]
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